Building the borderlands [electronic resource] : a transnational history of irrigated cotton along the Mexico-Texas border / Casey Walsh.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction : social fields of cotton -- Cotton and capitalism in the borderlands, 1820-1920 -- Developmentalism in Northern Mexico, 1910-1934 -- The social field of development : land and labor in the R�io Bravo/Rio Grande Delta, 1780-1930 -- Crisis and development in the R�io Bravo Delta, 1930-1935 -- Cardenista engineering, the Anderson Clayton Company, and rural unrest in the R�io Bravo Delta, 1935-1939 -- Repatriation in the R�io Bravo Delta, 1935-1940 -- Defining development in the R�io Bravo Delta, 1940-1963 -- Conclusion : historicizing the borderlands.

Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.